As well as four miles of mostly deserted S shaped beach from Broughton one end to the Bird watching hut at Burges Island the other – you can walk directly from the cottage (car not needed) to some of Gower’s best coastal and rural walks including streamed wooded valleys at Stembridge, Cwm Ivy lane, Betty Church and Cheriton woods, Whitford Burrows and Broughton / Hilllend dunes. Local birdlife regularly visiting the bird-tables include GS and LS Woodpeckers, Long Tailed, Blue, Great, & Coal tits. Nuthatches, Goldfinches, Chaffinches, Dunnocks, Robins, House Sparrows, Magpie’s, Jays, Collared Doves. Song/Mistle Thrush. Fieldfare and Redwing (in winter). See Yellow Wagtails and hear stonechats in local woodlands, and Oystercatchers, Lapwings, Curlews, dippers, Buzzard, Merlin and Red Kite locally. Why not visit the local pottery in Cheriton or craft shop and coffee shops in Cwm Ivy. Many guests walk over Llanmadoc Hill to Rhossili Beach and Llangennith Village (2 miles) and even extend their walk over Rhossili Down or along the beach shelf, passing the famous Old Rectory, to the Village at Rhossili (4 miles away from Heather Cottage).

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